An acquaintance of mine offers training services to state LE and likes to make a point about that: We like to think that police are experts at firearms, but in actuality, a civilian trainer who specializes in the topic is usually far better informed. Police have a lot on their plate, after all, and firearms skills are just one of those.

I did training prior to deployment overseas into a conflict zone, and benefited from instructors who had already been over there and seen some of the worse it had to offer. I could see that an instructor who both specialized in a topic and had outlier experience within it as being ideal. You could even just say it's actual experience, the reality-checking of theory, no different from how you might benefit learning software dev from a prof who had been a SE at some point. It's the difference between learning from someone who's only read about a topic in books vs. actually done the thing. Kinetic combat (like software development) is one of those topics that the actual reality diverges from media depictions, so that grounding in the real is why you train for it in the first place.

Neutralizing threats in an intense situation requires split-second decision-making. These decisions will be scrutinized after the fact, possibly for years, so the purpose of such training is largely to hardwire the correct action into reflex.

USA is cooked imo. The people are depoliticized. Many of them are obsessed with pointless distracting culture war, but still completely politically inactive. I think USA will simply continue on the path it's been on since Reagan, until it's exactly like modern day Russia.

>In the Pretti shooting, a Sig Sauer pistol the ICU nurse legally possessed was taken from his belt holster by a federal agent as several others dogpiled on top of him. Even after viewing multiple videos of the incident and speaking with other law enforcement officials, it is unclear whether Pretti’s gun misfired or if something else caused CBP SRT operator Raymundo Gutierrez and Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa to shoot him several times.

What is clear is that the CBP agents had already taken Pretti's legally carried firearm from him at this point. So it is no difference if the CBP employee caused the gun they took to fire or if all shots were directly into the back of Pretti as he lay on the ground. In both cases it was a murder caused entirely by their actions and stupidity.

And there still has not been any investigation, any indictment, or a fair trial. We are not living in a nation of laws. This terrible CBP "training" by the violent criminal David Norman this wired article highlights is part of it.